skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the list
Just because there are hundreds of extremely less popular social media platforms does not erase the fact that they have most of the users. Decisions they make about filtering content impact a large majority of our population.

> They are dust.

How is having 223 million users in the United States in 2020 equate to facebook being dust? They have a strangle hold on the market and a large portion of the United States uses facebook as their primary news source.

> If our free speech depended on the whims of one Mark Zuckerberg and one Jack Dorsey, then we didn’t have free speech to begin with.

I either don't understand what you mean by this or it sounds incorrect to me. People use facebook as a means of communication and as a means of receiving news. Why does that fact have any bearing over whether or not we had free speech before they came along? And are you saying that just because we didn't have free speech before means its ok that free speech is entirely free now?

> Facebook and Twitter are critters of the last 20 years, there have been others, and there will be more like them, but also entirely unlike them.

Does it really matter what the state of social media companies was before or in the future in this conversation? They are infringing on speech now. Their goals are not aligned with the United States, they are aligned with making money.

> The way people talk about social media companies today they make it sound like we need some sort of Social Media Public Commission to control the moderation policies and enforce the publication of government speech. We don’t, because we have what we need: competition and the many many technologies that enable it and a free flow of cash and labor and capital.

Are you seriously saying that fair competition is currently happening in the social media market? Facebook is currently being sued for being a monopoly. They have unfairly crushed numerous companies and will continue to do so.

Is your conclusion that everything is fine and that companies should do whatever they can to make money no matter the impact it has on people or our democracy?

Facebook dominates the social media market right now. They are making decisions on speech of a large proportion of our country. They themselves have attempted to setup commissions to better define how to moderate content fairly, but to this point they have failed. Why would laws detailing how they should moderate content be a bad thing? There are already laws around horrible content that should not be served, could it really hurt to extend it and make free speech content moderation a public policy decision of our democracy?
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Jena is everything but user friendly, it has a lot of weird edge cases, bugs, and a horrible API.

RDF4J is okay for RDF, but completely ignores OWL.

RDFLib is a bug ridden mess, have you ever used it, or checked their issue tracker, and commit history? With that amount of production breaking bugs that haven't been resolved for years, it might as well be unmaintained.

Redland has last been updated years ago. Sure there's software that's finished, but with the complexity of RDF, OWL and friends, my hypothesis would be "it's dead Jim".

I haven't used dotNetRDF, but it looks okay at first glance.
So at least you can do semantic web on windows...

YES! THEY'VE BEEN TESTED FOR 20+ YEARS AND ARE STILL HALVE BAKED, BUG RIDDEN, REASEARCH PROJECTS. MY POINT EXACTLY.
These are all smart, dedicated people. The semantic web ecosystem is too complex to get right, no matter how many hours and $$$ you throw at it.

I have nothing to gain from talking about the shortcomings of RDF and it's related standards, except maybe inspire people to come up with something better, and to save themselves some pain and suffering.

The pot calling the cattle black. Your motives seem more questionable, with the whole "username matches the topic talked about", and has a Semantic Web consultancy business, shtick.
> Youtube is my only soft spot here

http://youtube-dl.org/
I'm an avid whistler, and have always wanted this exact thing. Thank you for making something so quick and responsive! (chrome, Mac Catalina)

I found for me that with sensitivity at 20 I can hit every note perfectly! This is a fun tool to quickly go from a melody idea to a DAW now.

I'm very impressed, I've shared with my social as well because I thought it was so cool! Thank you for sharing your work.
How exactly do you think Facebook are telling me this lie?

You realize that I am speaking from experience not hypothetically; I don't have Facebook and there's been a marked decrease in both the number and frequency of messages from my family who rely on it.

I really wish this wasn't the case. The vendor lock-in with Facebook is really significant and I think those of us who leave the platform have to acknowledge that.
Hopefully it won’t result in overreaching conclusions. Trying to predict human behavior by tweets they put out is recipe for disaster. It can provide insights
Play with the sensitivity up between 20-40. It should even out the red and blue for you!
It's also true that a large portion of the high support needs cohort have other developmental disabilities. Autism is often co-diagnosed but doesn't account for the entirety of that demographic.
I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
Where did you find this it was top secret
Nice deepfake. It's so surprising how far the field has gone. I re never seeing the fake Nixon moon speech and being blown away
You're very clever
Had to stop reading after seeing the two images of Paris. The caption says "Le Corbusier dreamed of “cleaning and purging cities of disorder” with “calm and powerful architecture.”", but of course, this is exactly the same motivation that Paris's city planners had in the 19th century when the bulldozed most of the old medieval city to make way for the modern.
I think it's difficult with autism because autism applies to people who cannot feed themselves as well as people who would be defined by others as 'quirky'. There's no differentiation, so it'd be like calling all men disabled because some men are disabled. Of course, calling all men completely healthy isn't right either. There's no granularity.
For what it's worth, rustls relies on ring which has primitives written in C and ASM because getting constant-time operation guarantees from Rust is Very Hard. Though progress is being made on this area.
Are you willing to share the price? rsync.net has quite a bit that appeals to me, but I cant justify 5x the cost of B2 (which I'm generally happy with).

That being said, if there was no 400GB minimum, I'd open an account this week, even at the higher prices.
wow, this looks so cool, nice job!
Unless you believe in mind-body dualism, then your objection of the neuro morpheme is on shaky ground.

All psychiatric disorders ARE neurological...i.e. is rooted in the brain and associated systems. Moreover, there are plenty of neurological differences between ASD and TD groups, both at the cellular and morphological levels. However, a lot of the morphological differences are too small, and heterogeneity too large, to be useful as a means of diagnosis.
If everybody wrote off the used batteries, then the price of used batteries would be practically nothing. And then somebody would say, Gee, you mean I can buy 1MWh of old Nissan Leaf batteries for $1,000...?

An application will be found, or they will be recycled, whichever has better economics.
Perhaps, but we also know today that a God doesn't pull the Sun up every day, no Goddess blows on the Sea to make the tides, no God gets angry and explodes mountains, and there's no Goddess painting the ceiling of the world with stars.

We do, however, know pretty much roughly how a beetle grows, how cells and DNA work, cell division, hell, even atoms, and their constituents. Even if we can't replicate it 100% yet.

Is your God one of hundreds of thousands that have been forgotten? Or do you just happen to follow one of the modern trendy ones? Is it Thor? Athena? Xerxes? Why is yours so special compared to the 99,999 that have been discarded?
I'm not getting much out of the visualization but if you click each topic it has a nice little lay-person summary which is great.
"You can't prove no one tested that!" is not really a good basis for robust software design.
The thing is, while there may be a broader thing for which “Autism Spectrum Condition” is the most accurate label, modern psychiatry can only diagnose a disorder, and that's not just an arbitrary artifact of naming. We don't have the understanding of the mechanics beneath most psychological conditions, including Autism, to diagnose them other than by the combination of social dysfunction and accompanying factors. To the extent that there is an Autism or Autism-like-condition which is not a “badness” in the concrete conditions in which it is experienced it is outside the scope of what we can meaningfully discern.

> "Disorder" is a medical term for "badness", especially weird to apply to a condition that is notable for its extreme mental... orderliness.

I don't see anything weird about that; are you suggesting that there is no extreme of inflexible attachment to order which would be ever be bad?
> I started with your first idea, that is (arguably, self-) referenceability of (conversations about) reality. I made a site intended to have ((('statement', 'response'), response), ... response) structure. Bunch of problems, including user input interaction.

Within this process, did you have a step that decomposed each comment to extract the constituent entities and behaviors, and then append them to an overall model (which subsequent comments would refer to)? This is not an easy task at all, and expecting average users to be able to do it is likely expecting too much. However, if this is what's needed to return sanity to the world &/or vastly improve our collective understanding of reality, then so be it.

> After some time that's how I explain what I'm building

That's a good idea. I was thinking about something similar to that, except rather than picking items from a personal list, users could pull an idea(s) from a common "tree of knowledge and ideas" or something like that, and then frame their comment around or in the context of those (often complex) ideas*.

> For the original problem, I think the flatter the ontology, the better. I find short videos to be great explanation tools for example - 3Blue1Brown is absolutely insane.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a new, rich multimedia-based language for communicating complex ideas in forums, rather than being stuck with this crap, "low signal/high noise and ambiguity".

I added contact info to my profile, I would love to see what you are working on - I think this space is well overdue for some innovation, and maybe I have some ideas that might fir into what you're working on.
As a college student (nearly 20 years ago) I built a tool for our student newspaper that caught frequent violations of the Associated Press style guide. Later, working as a newsroom copy editor, I was shocked at how few tools there were available to enforce style. Really awesome to see this Typerighter tool do it right.
He started off with $50k, but the cost basis is $750k now because he's cashed out some of the position.
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
> ... then you're doin' it wrong.

100%. Its mind blowing that this could possibly be considered without batting an eyelid.
I agree with simias.

What does JS have to do with my VPN?
What was wrong with Skype? Still beats the pants off others for quality.

I cannot think of much good agressive whitespace, hamburger menus, infinite scrolling, HID hijacking, copy-paste preventing, trackers etc, etc etc, has brought us, besides into the world of Aggressive Ad Arbitrage.

Need https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ be mentioned?

The real powerhouse was Flash, then HTML5, and now WebAssembly, or as I like to call it, reinventing the wheel while simultaneously and conveniently blocking ad-blockers.
This wouldn't be my list, but that's fine. I saw delivery drones on the list. I'm skeptical of this idea for consumers but could see the military using it for resupply logistics or something like that, but what always surprises me is how they use quadcopters (or some other type of multicopter with no swashplate). Seems like you'd want something like an autonomous Chinook (scaled down obviously) or other heavy lift helicopter if you were really going to pursue this idea. And while electric is sexy, from a cost perspective some sort of piston or turbine engine seems more reasonable unless distances traveled are really short and the batteries are swappable.
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Sometimes shippers just say "we assume you have a loading dock" because they can't be arsed to care about it. More than once I've unloaded a pallet a box at a time from the back of the trailer while the driver was pissed he had to tip the boxes over onto my shoulder. If you ever have to hire an excavator for other reasons, it isn't a bad idea to have an outdoor "hump dock" built... the other option is a forklift!
I worked with a guy that died from malnutrition. We worked hard on getting enough food in him, but he had so many issues related to food and eating that his body eventually capitulated. He was a really sweet dude, we talked a lot about computers.

His diagnosis didn't feel like a social judgement. The impairment literally killed him even though he wanted to live.
The actual commit: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/8255ed69
A quick read makes me think it does not do that. Instead when one process exits it looks for more queued job files.

[edit]

I suppose if you ran nq on boot, it would find the existing queued job files and you would only lose the one running job? Or maybe it would rerun the one that was in progress. Not sure.
Modernizes C language = Zig.

But I don’t see a point in using systems languages for the usual UNIX tools, they could be rewritten in a more secure language. In the rare case performance is important, there is FFI, but they are usually IO-bound so there is not much point.
Are e.g. AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean releasing emergency patches? I can't find info.
>For comparison, neural nets cannot update their models - when the world changes, a neural net can only train its model all over again, from scratch

I mean, sure they can. Training a neural network is literally nothing but the network's model being updated one batch of training examples at a time. You can stop, restart, extend or change the data at any point in the process. There's whole fields of transfer learning and online learning which extend that to updating a trained model with new data.

edit: Also in a way reinforcement learning where the model controls the future data it sees and updates itself on.
Premature optimization is root of all evil - Donald Knuth

https://stackify.com/premature-optimization-evil/

Don't be evil.
As I remember, Plan9 also had a concept of a write-only filesystem, and a read-write filesystem was mounted as a union mount of a write-only fs and a WORM fs with the same partition.
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So again why does it have to be "rewrite at 1/10th the complexity in <Language A>" (10%) vs "rewrite in <Language B> at full complexity" (30%)? What's preventing using Language B for the complexity rewrite and getting 0.1 * (1 - 0.7) = 3%?

Rewrites do bring the chance to Royally Screw it Up™ so it's certainly not simply a product of "it is now written in <Language X> therefore safe" but as it said not only have projects shown the security didn't fall apart but they have shown the opposite.

I agree you don't get there by a bunch of yolo rewrites to whatever is hip though, it has to be a planned effort that isn't rushed. Much in the same way quickly writing a small replacement utility does not inherently make it more secure or reliable than an existing significantly more complex utility. Even just trying to shave some functionality off the existing code is rife with "but how does removing this piece affect the app remaining logic" and takes time and effort to do right.

Both methods do have to be done right and both do greatly help security but there is nothing about picking a memory safe language or making a significantly narrower focused utility that preclude each other.
My high-school alarm clock was a power amp on a hardware switch that would activate roughly around 0630, plus a Windows timer on the desktop that would wake the computer from sleep and proceed to blast an mp3 through the (now powered) speaker columns.

The motivator for getting up was as much to stop the mp3 as it was to prevent the rest of my family from killing me. I eventually retired the system, after my half-awake brain developed an acrobatic routine, where in one smooth movement, I would raise, hit the power button on the power amp, and fall back to bed.
> Something that has struck out to me for many years now is the rather striking lack of reporting on the incredibly strong correlation between parental (both maternal/paternal) age at time of conception and ASM.

I thought this was common knowledge? I’ve certainly read this frequently and it’s something that is brought up (anecdotally) by OB/GYNs as women enter their 30’s. My wife and several family members ruefully will tell stories about how their doc let them know that they’ll be considered of “advanced maternal age” when they hit 35. They were then reminded of the increased risk of birth defects, autism, and complications.
For anyone interested in the history of ASD, I highly recommend the book NeuroTribes [1] - I read this shortly after my son was diagnosed with ASD and it goes through a lot of history, up to the most recent DSM V definition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroTribes
I see this all the time in well-intentioned "agile" projects. They fail to fully understand the domain and then micro optimisations like this lead to features breaking in interesting and unexpected ways.
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That sort of thing definitely happens sometimes on HN.
I feel like my choice to not participate in non-anonymous social media in any but the absolute most bland and uninteresting ways is the best long running decision I've ever made. The end of anonymized internet is the end of my participation in it and sadly I think that day is fast approaching.
Thanks for your considered response to my snarky comment. Personally I don't mind plain ads which are simply a commpany advertising their product/service on a billboard etc, what I find unbelievable in the digital era, is the extent of the intrusion now on finding out everything about people to market to them better (which I'm not even sure if having more data on someone has been proven to produce better results). Its really the data broking side of it - if that went away I'd have no issues.
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It was a way to track lots of different values on your own dashboard

https://youtu.be/c0A9hEUnAOM

One day I hope to rebuild it.
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Was the agent fired for writing something specifically, or simply for signing up for these networks?
I'm well aware of screen/tmux/dtach/&c.

If you accidentally exit the shell with all the jobs, you are done adding jobs to the queue, no?
Not predicting what will happen thirty years hence is naive? The web was all shiny goodness and going to be a panacea for anything you could name back in the late 90s. The fact that it did not come to pass isn’t naïveté so much as a disappointing repeat of what our current economic systems of reward drive companies to do.
The more people that install these, the less unique you become. Also if you are disabling JS execution via uBlock they aren't getting this list. What you are suggesting is essentially security by obscurity and this is failed already since it is highly unlikely my neighbor's browsing stream looks anything like mine.

What these plugins do is make the tracking job more difficult for the adtech guys, and the more complex these systems become, the higher the costs to the tracker and the higher the likelihood they screw up. It's defense in depth.
I agree, and own the book, and have had lunch with the author, but I would just add that NeuroTribes represents a very opinionated take on autism that has some sharp critics.
I'm not a big fan of Angular, but in their style guide they talk about Try to be DRY. And I think they explain it better than Dan:

https://angular.io/guide/styleguide#t-dry-try-to-be-dry

> Do be DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).

> Avoid being so DRY that you sacrifice readability.
Yeah the theory is that the price of a business reflects its future income.
I never understood autism to be noted for extreme orderliness in all cases. Orderliness from what I understand is just one of multiple possible symptoms that, collectively, are termed as autism.

(You can be extremely orderly and not have autism, for example, if you had Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder which is different from the more familiar OCD.)
How can you patent if there is open prior art?
I feel obliged to point out that when people try and equate behavior that is completely within the bounds of what society considers normal (being gay) with what can be a crippling and life affecting condition, it does nobody a service. Anymore than e.g. saying red hair used to be a sign of weakness, outdated views have no bearing on this discussion. Just because outdated views once existed and that normal behavior is now normal does not mean that we shouldn't label impairments as such in order to try and understand and help those affected by them.

Edit: very interested in feedback on why this either rubbed some people the wrong way or was perceived as a negative contribution to the discussion
> That is evidence that there isn't any.

Again, this is a bit you're adding out of nowhere. The WHO did not make that claim in the tweet, and is quoted on the same day as that tweet saying evidence of human-to-transmission is likely to emerge.
Will die off quickly.

85% of males lust for top 15% of females by looks

85% of females lust for top 15% of males by looks

some things never change . . . .
The best argument they could come up with for Bitcoin is "If all of the S&P 500 companies moved 1% of their cash into Bitcoin, it would go up by this much". No real explanation of why companies would move their cash into Bitcoin instead of literally any other investment.

This sounds a lot like the tired "If we could capture 1% of the TAM..." argument used by startups that haven't really fleshed out their value proposition.
Thanks for an interesting paper. I wonder, is there something like the Onion, but darker?
I daily drive FF and even develop using it. Everyone else in the company use Chrome. Recently one of our clients complained about a performance issue, I tried to replicate it on my fast PC, but could not replicate. The people who could replicate it were on Chrome, but when they followed the replication steps in FF, the problem disappeared.

Google web applications still not great, but still usable I find. Facebook performance isn't great either.
> We tend to focus on the lighter end of the spectrum, where people can lead functional and fulfilling lives.

There's a form of survivorship bias here: the greater the degree of impairment, the less broad social contacts the person is likely to have, so on average most people's experience is going to have people who have less severe impairments overrepresented compared to their relative frequency among those with the diagnosis.

And I'm sure most people that think about the issue recognize that on an intellectual level, but it's still difficult to tune out the effect that has on one’s “gut feeling” about the subject.
Assuming js can retrieve pixel data, you could have the server generate unique images and use the rgb values as a unique ID. The unique image would be cached.